IPTV Abu Dhabi: One Subscription for Every TV in the Family Home

A typical villa in Khalifa City, Mohammed Bin Zayed City or Al Raha has a TV in the majlis, another in the family room and more in the bedrooms. With a traditional TV package, every extra room can mean another box and another cable. With IPTV the channels arrive through an app, so any compatible TV, stick or tablet in the house can be set up to play them.

It also keeps the whole family happy. There is Arabic news and drama for grandparents, cartoons for the children and live football for everyone else, all in one line-up of 70,000+ live channels and 400,000+ movies and series.

An IPTV subscription in Abu Dhabi is also easy to manage. One person orders on WhatsApp, receives the login details and sets up each device with our written guides. If you change TVs or move house, you simply set up the new device.

Fibre from e& and du is available across most of the emirate, from Al Reem Island and Saadiyat to the newer villa communities on the mainland. In a large home the challenge is rarely the plan itself. It is getting a strong signal from one end of the villa to the other.

Work out the speed for the whole house

Add up the screens that might be watching at the same time. For example, a 4K TV in the majlis (about 25 Mbps), a Full HD TV in the family room (about 15 Mbps) and a tablet in HD (about 10 Mbps) need roughly 50 Mbps between them, plus room for everything else on the network.

Use cables and mesh Wi-Fi where you can

• Run an Ethernet cable to the main TV, especially for 4K.
• In a two-storey villa, use a mesh Wi-Fi system with one unit on each floor.
• Keep the router out of metal cabinets and away from the kitchen.
• Put cameras and smart-home gadgets on the 2.4 GHz band and keep the 5 GHz band for TVs.

Al Ain, Al Dhafra and outer districts

In Al Ain, Al Dhafra and the further-out districts, the same rules apply. If your line is slower, choose HD rather than 4K on busy evenings: the picture still looks sharp on most TVs.

Many families arrive in the capital for a new job and spend their first weeks in a hotel apartment or a temporary flat. Shared building Wi-Fi in those places is often slow at night and can limit streaming, so it is rarely a fair test of IPTV.

Once your own home internet from e& or du is installed, run a speed test next to the main TV and set up that screen first. Ask the installer to place the router somewhere central rather than in a cupboard by the door; it is much easier to agree on the day than to move later. Then message us with your plan and devices, and we’ll take it from there.